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Month: September 2023

Pope joins shamans, monks and evangelicals to highlight Mongolia’s faith diversity

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SARUUL ENKHBOLD Associated Press ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — With China’s crackdown on religious minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest Sunday to highlight the role that religions can play in forging world peace, as he presided over an interfaith meeting highlighting Mongolia’s

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Las autoridades buscan ayuda para identificar graneros en las investigaciones de casos sin resolver del asesino en serie BTK

Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Un equipo policial en el noreste de Oklahoma cree que el prolífico asesino en serie conocido como BTK puede ser responsable de varios casos adicionales de personas desaparecidas y homicidios sin resolver. Ahora esperan que el público pueda ayudarlos a identificar graneros y silos en Oklahoma, Kansas y Missouri que el

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Russians press Ukraine in the northeast to distract from more important battles in counteroffensive

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Concealed under pine branches in the forests of northeast Ukraine, the muzzle of a Soviet-era howitzer rises, aiming for a group of approaching Russian infantrymen many kilometers away. A Ukrainian soldier signals to fire, then swiftly runs for cover. The thunderous crash of the unleashed projectile

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Founding father Gen. Anthony Wayne’s legacy is getting a second look at Ohio’s Wayne National Forest

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio. Their citizens have never stopped helping the U.S. Forest Service manage this expanse of forested hills, hollows, streams and lakes — even as

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Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Ihor Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation

By Olga Voitovych, Josh Pennington, Pauline Lockwood and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — One of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs has been arrested in a fraud investigation, state media in the country are reporting. A Kyiv court on Saturday ordered Ihor Kolomoisky, a key supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, to 60 days

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Aspiring Taiwan presidential candidate Terry Gou resigns from board of Apple supplier Foxconn

BEIJING (AP) — Aspiring Taiwanese independent presidential candidate Terry Gou has resigned from the board of Foxconn, the Apple supplier he founded nearly a half-century ago. The company, officially registered as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., issued a news release late Saturday saying Gou had resigned for personal reasons. It wasn’t clear what, if

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